The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22
CABBAGE FOR MARKET.

CABBAGE FOR MARKET.
,<.,,.d Adopted I'm Now England IN
keeping II During the Winter.
There are two methods of disposing
# the cabbage crop: One is to sell at
.he going price directly from the field.
eating from forty cents to one dollar
Ser barrel, according to the market
This method gives very little If any
xsste, and makes very easy and clean
trimmings. and sometimes gives the
hest returns. for some years the price
d as good when harvested as in
March or April following.
The other method Is to hold the crop
until winter or spring, and this makes
storage necessary. The farmers Of
Dracut practice storing in cellars. and
number Of them have built large
CELLARS expressly for this purpose.
while others use their barn cellars or
the basement Of some outbuilding.
One Of the largest Of these storage
cellars is shout 60x40 feet and 10 feet
high, built in a side hill with doors and
shutters in tho south side and hen.
house in the roof above it. This cellar
gives room for perhaps fifteen hun.
dred barrels of cabbage, beside having
one end partitioned off for storing three
or four hundred barrels of onions. The
pabbages are cut up about half way OF
he stun p. the loose leaves trimmed of
and the heads packed away in
racks that are built from the floor to
the top Of the cellar. These racks are
so arranged as to allow apassage every
six feet or so, and the heads are laid in
only one deep on the shelves so as to
allow frequent inspection and thorough
circulation of air.
In such cellar the cabbage can be
taken out very conveniently at any
time that the price is good enough to
suit the owner, and if tho temperature
has been properly attended to will
come out fresh and crisp. and bring q
good price.
Another way Of storing is to cut
them up about half way of the stump
II well headed; if loose pull roots and
all and set them head up on grass
ground and cover with pine shives,
oak leaves or with meadow hay, but it
requires much moro hay than leaves to
keep OUT the frost. And still another
way Of bedding is practiced by some Of
the gardeners near Boston, and by
some seed-growers, who pack them
away in broad, shallow pit cover
with straw or hay, and then with dirt
and l have seen beds covered first with
dirt and then with seaweed. The OBJ
ject being in all these different ways to
SO cover them as to keep warm enough
not to freeze much-a little freezing
does no harm-and keep them cool
enough not to heat and decay. This
oil seems simple enough. but when
put in practice it is found difficult to
make perfect success of it.
Cabbage should be bedded in some
we'll. drained spot, for wet ground or
water will draw frost, so it Is
necessary to have the rain find quick
passage from the bed or frost will
often follow it down and spoil the cab
bage. have tried to make plain the
methods of keeping the crop.
md now as to objects Of keeping it,
which are two-one to save valuable
lime at harvest and tho other to gain
money in the selling. Although there
Is sometimes a year when tho price
rises but little on account of an extra
arge crop or some such good rea son,
ret the price is generally much higher
n winter and spring than when har-
rested, as was the case this last year,
when the price rose from 50 cents per
,arrel in November to $3.50 and SS
YER barrel in April and first week in
Nay, although those who sold in JAN
lary or February received only from
9 cents to $l.25 To know just how
o keep the crop and just when to sell
requires experience and a close
Of both the market and the
upply, but the reward when you get /
Is sufficient to pay we'll for the work !
nd expense incurred Charles W
iann, in NJ T. Herald. !